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BBC News
Heart attack myths blown away
The Press Association - Aug 3, 2008
But the symptoms of a heart attack can be far more subtle and easier to ignore. The signs can vary from person to person but common ones include central ...
On the rounds Scotsman
Dramatic Hollywood depictions of heart attacks 'risking lives' Telegraph.co.uk
Heart attack advice on TV, films too dangerous Thaindian.com
Nursing in Practice - TheMedGuru
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Van Boxmeer recovering from heart attack
SportingNews.com -
BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Former NHL player John Van Boxmeer will spend the next month recovering from a heart attack, the Swiss hockey team he coaches said ...
Canadian Coach Van Boxmeer suffers heart attack The Canadian Press
? Heart attack hits Bern's Van Boxmeer Hamilton Spectator
Former Sabres Defenseman Van Boxmeer Recovering After Heart Attack AHN
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Driver suffers heart attack at the wheel
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Aug 4, 2008
Warwickshire: Three people were injured when a 63-year-old male driver suffered a suspected heart attack and his car smashed into a house. ...
Pupils save heart attack teacher
This is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK -
By Gazette Reporter A teacher has paid tribute to 30 children who helped save his life when he had a heart attack in class. Michael Wilson was taking a ...
Juvenile court Judge Niehaus dies of apparent heart attack
Oxford Press, OH - Aug 3, 2008
Niehaus died of a heart attack at Fort Hamilton Hospital at 10:48 pm Thursday, July, 31, according to hospital officials. The 64-year-old Niehaus was a ...
Butler County judge handed out tough love, second chances Middletown Journal
Hundreds pay respects to Judge Niehaus Cincinnati.com
Services for judge set for Monday Middletown Journal
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Heart attack, cardiac arrest differ in important ways
Akron Beacon Journal, OH -
Most people, even nurses, would hear Monstrom's story and assume she had a heart attack, said Dr. Michael Pelini, Summa's medical director of heart rhythm ...
Blood-Thinner Plavix Works Harder in Smokers
U.S. News & World Report, DC -
Plavix (clopidogrel) is often given to heart attack patients after the attack. It inhibits formation of clots by blood cells called platelets. ...
Heart attack victims ?should not give up taking statins?
Times Online, UK - Aug 3, 2008
Heart attack victims who give up taking statins afterwards double their risk of dying in the next year. The results of an investigation using British data ...

NHS Choices
Statins after heart attack
NHS Choices, UK -
?Heart attack victims ?should not give up taking statins?? reported The Times saying that people who have a heart attack and who give up taking statins ...
Kanawha leads new approach that reduces heart attack deaths
Charleston Gazette, WV -
By Eric Eyre During a heart attack, time is muscle: The sooner you get a blocked vessel open, the less likely you'll suffer irreversible damage to the heart ...
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Sleep-disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease Cross-sectional Results of the Sleep Heart … -
E SHAHAR, CW WHITNEY, S REDLINE, ET LEE, AB NEWMAN … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2001 - Am Thoracic Soc
... The median of the hypoxemia index was 0.26% of total ... in patients with transient ischemic
attack and stroke ... The Sleep Heart Health Study: design, rationale, and ...

Physical activity and ischaemic heart disease in middle-aged British men. -
AG Shaper, G Wannamethee, R Weatherall - British Medical Journal, 1991 - heart.bmj.com
... fatal). Measurements and main results- During the follow up period of eight
years 488 men suffered at least one major heart attack. A ...

Prospective Study of Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in Relation to Fasting Total Homocysteine, … -
AR Folsom, FJ Nieto, PG McGovern, MY Tsai, MR … - Circulation, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc
... reported history of a physician-diagnosed heart attack, prior MI ... prevalent CHD, stroke,
or transient ischemic attack but not ... in women and 1.01 and 0.26 in men ...

Relation of Heart Rate and Systolic Blood Pressure to the Onset of Pain in Angina Pectoris -
BF ROBINSON - Circulation, 1967 - Am Heart Assoc
Page 1. Relation of Heart Rate and Systolic Blood ... by the product of heart rate
and systolic blood pressure (corrected when necessary for ...

… Myocardial Infarction: Does Patient Age Influence Utilization Patterns? The Worcester Heart Attack … -
JH Gurwitz, V Osganian, RJ Goldberg, Z Chen, JM … - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1991 - Oxford Univ Press
... adjusted odds ratios for receipt of selected diagnostic tests and according to patient
age for all subjects, Worcester Heart Attack Study, ... 0.93 0.66 0.26 0.00 ...

Temporal Trends in Event Rates After Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction The Framingham Heart Study -
UC Guidry, JC Evans, MG Larson, PWF Wilson, JM … - Circulation, 1999 - Am Heart Assoc
... HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.38 to 1.29; 1980s: HR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.26 to 1.00). ... The Worcester
Heart Attack Study found no difference in the long-term survival rates of ...

[PDF] Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and ischaemic heart disease: an evaluation of the evidence -
MR Law, JK Morris, NJ Wald - British Medical Journal, 1997 - ash.org.nz
... 0.26 for carotenes, 53,58,59 and 0.18 for vitamin C 53,55,58 ... smokers (table 2). The
corresponding estimates of the excess risk of ischaemic heart disease are l ...
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Physical Activity and Mortality in Older Men With Diagnosed Coronary Heart Disease -
SG Wannamethee, AG Shaper, M Walker - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
... of a physician diagnosis of CHD (heart attack or angina ... procedures (eg, angioplasty,
CABG, and other heart surgery ... activity groups were 1.00, 0.44 (0.26 to 0.75 ...

… AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CORONARY RISK FACTORS IN A POPULATION-BASED SAMPLE THE MINNESOTA HEART … -
AR FOLSOM, CJ CASPERSEN, HL TAYLOR, DR JACOBS, RV … - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1985 - Oxford Univ Press
... ucation, Type A score, thiocyanate, body mass index, and log alcohol intake (R 2 =
0.19); for women?age, education, Type A score, heart rate {R 2 = 0.26). ...

Estrogen replacement therapy and coronary heart disease: a quantitative assessment of the … -
MJ Stampfer - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2004 - IEA
... 0.80) Framingham Heart Study b Wilson et al. ... c Eaker and 50?59 695 15%
10 CHD no angina 0.26 (0.06?1.22) c,d 0.4 (P 0.05) c ...

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Falling mortality for heart attack patients
MINAP data have shown that the percentage of heart attack patients who die within 30 days of admission to hospital has fallen over the last three years from 12.4% to 11.2%, which represents 12 more lives saved for every thousand heart attacks.

More patients receive thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for help

-- 64% of patients received thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for professional help in England compared with 58% in 2005/6. In Wales 41% of patients received thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for professional help compared with 30% in 2005/6.

More ambulance personnel can diagnose heart attack and give thrombolytic treatment before the patient arrives at hospital
12/13 of the ambulance services in England and the Welsh ambulance service can now give thrombolytic treatment to patients before they reach hospital (pre-hospital thrombolysis) while the single ambulance service not using pre-hospital treatment takes all eligible patients to specialist interventional hospitals for consideration of primary angioplasty.

-- In 2006/7, 2942 patients received pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment compared with 2231 patients in 2005/6.

-- In 2006/7, 91% of patients in England and 90 % of patients in Wales that received pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment received this within 60 minutes of calling for help. There is opportunity for further worthwhile increases in pre-hospital treatment, particularly in rural areas where journey times are long.

More patients are being treated by primary angioplasty

An increasing number of hospitals now provide primary angioplasty as an emergency treatment for heart attack. In England 35 hospitals have a primary angioplasty service, and 21 of these also provide a service for 41 other hospitals. In Wales 2 hospitals perform primary angioplasty with one other hospital having access to this service. The numbers having primary angioplasty have doubled in the last 12 months.

-- In 2006/7 3,192 patients (3,148 in England and 44 in Wales) were treated with primary angioplasty compared with 1,647 in 2005/6, an increase of 94%.

Prescription of secondary prevention medication continues to increase

The proportion of heart attack patients prescribed secondary prevention medication on discharge from hospital continues to exceed the targets remaining at 97% for aspirin, 91% for beta-blockers and 96% for statins in England, with a corresponding increase to 99%, 93% and 95% in Wales.
Dr John Birkhead, MINAP Clinical Director, said:

"The increase in numbers having thromobolytic treatment before arrival in hospital is gratifying as this reduced the delay before treatment, but there is certainly room for further increases in future."

Dr Jonathan Boyce, The Healthcare Commission's Head of Audit, said:

"As these results show, treatment of heart attacks is rapidly changing for the better. This audit is essential to keeping track of the improvement in those treatments, and helping to ensure that they are available everywhere".

The Healthcare Commission is the health watchdog in England. It keeps a check on health services to ensure that they are meeting standards in a range of areas. The Commission also promotes improvements in the quality of healthcare and public health in England through independent, authoritative, patient-centred assessments of those who provide services. Responsibility for inspection and investigation of NHS bodies and the independent sector in Wales rests with Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW). The Healthcare Commission has certain statutory functions in Wales which include producing an annual report on the state of healthcare in England and Wales, national improvement reviews in England and Wales, and working with HIW to ensure that relevant cross-border issues are managed effectively. The Commission is currently responsible for sponsoring the National Clinical Audit and Patients' Outcomes Programme for England and Wales and funds MINAP. By identifying where improvement is required and sharing good practice within the service, the audit teams and the Healthcare Commission help to raise standards of patient care.

About UCL

Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. In the government's most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 UCL departments achieved top ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international excellence.

UCL is the fourth-ranked UK university in the 2006 league table of the top 500 world universities produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UCL alumni include Mahatma Gandhi, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay.

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